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Sam Raimi
American
Director
Born:
Oct 23
,
1959
About
Always
Like
Me
Movies
Think
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I feel the horror audience is a great audience, and I would ideally make a movie that would give them as much energy as they're willing to give to the picture.
Sam Raimi
Great
Picture
Energy
Willing
Would
Give
Horror
Feel
Ideally
Make
Audience
Movie
Them
Much
That's what heroic stories do for us. They show us the way. They remind us of the good we are capable of.
Sam Raimi
Good
Heroic
Way
Remind
Stories
Capable
Us
Show
As I began making my feature films, it was a great adventure. It was about constructing something I saw in my head or I had designed on storyboards and capturing that on film.
Sam Raimi
Great
Films
Saw
About
Something
Constructing
Feature
Feature Films
Had
Head
Adventure
Making
Began
Capturing
Film
Designed
I love cats. I've had cats as pets.
Sam Raimi
Love
Cats
Had
Pets
When we read stories of heroes, we identify with them. We take the journey with them. We see how the obstacles almost overcome them. We see how they grow as human beings or gain qualities or show great qualities of strength and courage and with them, we grow in some small way.
Sam Raimi
Strength
Great
Journey
Courage
Overcome
Heroes
Way
See
Some
Small
Great Qualities
Take
Almost
Obstacles
Identify
Qualities
Read
How
Human
Human Beings
Stories
Gain
Them
Show
Beings
Grow
Any time anyone makes a comic book into a movie, in some way, I think they have to kill the comic book.
Sam Raimi
Time
Book
Think
Way
Some
Makes
Comic
Comic Book
Any
Movie
Anyone
Every picture has been a learning opportunity for me.
Sam Raimi
Me
Learning
Opportunity
Picture
Every
Has-Been
Been
I've always loved... actually I didn't always love horror films. I started out and I only liked comedies and dramas.
Sam Raimi
Love
Films
Dramas
Out
Horror
Horror Films
Only
Liked
Comedies
Always
Loved
Actually
Started
I don't like shows, I don't like to put on a show, I just really want to work intimately with my actors.
Sam Raimi
Work
Put
Like
Just
Want
Really
Show
Shows
Actor
I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.
Sam Raimi
Me
One Thing
Student
Liked
Another
Were
Interested
Movies
Realized
Film
Thing
I've always worked with a team of actors and filmmakers ever since I was a kid in Michigan making Super-8 movies.
Sam Raimi
Kid
Since
Always
Making
Michigan
Movies
Worked
Team
Actor
Ever
Filmmakers
I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
Sam Raimi
Me
Too
Unpleasant
About
Like
Real
Movies
Serial
Necessarily
I like something where I can really use my imagination and be an active participant in the construction of the monster and usually that's in the world of the supernatural or the world of the fantastic, so that's why those kinds of stories about demons and the supernatural appeal to me or maybe I'm really interested in that subject.
Sam Raimi
Me
Construction
World
Active
Imagination
Monster
Those
Kinds
About
Something
Supernatural
Participant
Like
Demons
Subject
Maybe
Where
Stories
Interested
Movies
Fantastic
Really
Use
Appeal
Why
I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
Sam Raimi
Made
Super
Liked
Audience
Always
Making
Movies
Sequels
Even
I like a good mono track, it's right up front. I don't need all the surrounds telling me there are birds in the neighbourhood.
Sam Raimi
Good
Me
Birds
Neighbourhood
Telling
Like
Track
Up
Surrounds
Front
Right
Mono
Need
I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
Sam Raimi
Me
Try
Made
Picture
Every
Think
Too
Everything
Embarrassed
Would
See
Except
No-One
Like
Another
Same
Done
Just
Want
Movie
Again
Them
Really
Ever
Differently
Chance
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